Crux // 6

It's been a while since I posted about Crux. I finished this top last May and it has been patiently waiting to be picked up again. Partly because I was doing other projects in the meantime but also because it has given me a hard time to decide on the quilting. Meanwhile the quilting is almost done and I'm still not convinced about my decision. This quilt really deserves its name!

This is the current stage

I could also have stopped here

Or I could have quilted it with black thread? Or black&white variegated thread? Or again a different color at all? Or chosen a completely different quilting design??

I really liked this stage though

But this moment is gone and can't come back.

Now all I can do is decide if I'm done quilting.

Stripes I

I finished quilting my improv stripes quilt and I'm working on the binding. I am really in love with this quilt and the freshness and happiness it transmits. Also I really enjoyed the design process with the improv stripes. I'm thinking this will not be my last stripes quilt and so I'm naming it Stripes I.

Progress update

In the meantime I have started to quilt the improv stripes quilt. I'll be sewing "straight" lines in an irregular grid form. I think I'm going to like it! Still thinking about the name for this quilt...

Dishtowel with a personal touch

Recently I needed a little present to bring to a fried I was visiting. I wanted something practical with a handmade touch but that wouldn't require too much time for making. I resorted to something I've done in the past and that has been well received.

I had a ready made dish towel I had bought in the past.

I brought out my scrap bin containing strips.

I cut away the hem and sewed together a scrappy binding as I would do for binding a quilt. Only in this case I made the binding one folded.

And tada! In little time I had a cute little present with my personal touch. 

Progress update

While I have been silent on this platform for the past four weeks I have made quite some progress in the studio. Those who follow me on Instagram already know what I'm talking about and won't learn anything new. For the others this is what happened.

I made some good progress with my epp project and as usual I really enjoy looking at the back of such a project. All those lovely seams that will soon disappear in the layers of the finished quilt.

And with the growing of this epp top I got room back on my design wall. This enabled me to also work on the project I first talked about here.

What started as an experiment by just sewing strips together as leaders and enders while working on Nelly grew to a finished top of its own right. It's been a fun process with these improv strips. Not only with the top itself but also with the fun progress on my wall.

I'm really happy with this top. With its cheerful colors it is uplifting to look at. So fun how the wall has changed during the last four weeks.

And this is all that's left of the epp pieces to be sewn together. Soon I'll have another finished top!

And with Crux I'll have three tops waiting to be backed, layered, basted, and quilted!
See you again in a couples week!